celticman

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I have 1182 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2663881 times and 1208 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1668 of my 15,587 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1701 votes

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Love Story 21

By celticman on Thu, 16 Nov 2023

Da groaned and leaned on me as he lowered himself to the floor and shut his eyes. ‘Don’t die, Da,’ I wailed as he sucked in each breath in and blew...

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Love Story 20

By celticman on Wed, 15 Nov 2023

I wore my smartest clothes and shined my shoes before we set off to the Police Station at Hall Street. Nobody else hurrying along the canal in the...

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Love Story 19

By celticman on Tue, 14 Nov 2023

I piled my shirt and trousers on the chair beside the window and crept shivering into bed with my socks on. Tossed and turned. Yawned, throwing my...

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children of the coming apocalypse

By celticman on Sun, 12 Nov 2023

[Playtime] Close your eyes Cover your ears Don’t look for a reason To have reason And we’ll be in the clear We’re children of the coming apocalypse...

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Love Story 18

By celticman on Fri, 10 Nov 2023

I zigzagged down the hill towards the phone box. It always smelled of pish as if somebody had used it a toilet, which they had from the damp stains...

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I've been out looking for

Posted on Thu, 16 Jan 2025

I've been out looking for Spencer. Alas no sucess. But I did find a charging cable. Maybe he has been here.

robots, cybors, chatgbt and pattern-recognition software such as Fakebook tend to give advice. Shampoo bottles don't. [edit your...

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Posted in Parcel for You - Part 48

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sorry about your sorrow, if

Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2025

sorry about your sorrow, if that makes sense?

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Posted in "Silence"

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A sad ending.

Posted on Wed, 08 Jan 2025

A sad ending.

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Posted in "Before They Call, I Will Answer, While They Are Still Speaking, I Will Hear." Part Five.

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There's a few statues of me

Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025

There's a few statues of me lying around somewhere. They've came to resemble very large rocks, but I don't mind. A statute of Jimmy Johnson outside Parkhead is awful. I guess what you're saying is about quality. We're agreed on that. Statutes of...

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Posted in A statue of you

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It is an unholy land full of

Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025

It is an unholy land full of genocidial hate. No surprise the king of Persia would be regarded as a Palestinian refugee and jailed.

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Posted in Sojourn In Palestine (Welcome To Palestine!) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 2

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'I'd like to teach the world

Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025

'I'd like to teach the world to sing'. That was an old Coke advert and the song went to number 1 (when number 1 was a big thing). Companies pay hundreds of thousands. No surprises.

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Posted in Childhood.

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